Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1915 — Courtship Center Is Started by Boston Church [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Courtship Center Is Started by Boston Church

BOSTON.— A simon-pure, true-blue courtship center, where Boston’s young men and women of marriageable age can gather and become acquainted with a view to matrimony, has been established by Mrs. Rumsey Jenness,

wife of the new pastor of the Tremont Street Methodist church, iu the parlors of that edifice, at West Concord and Tremont streets. The courtship meetings are held usually 'Wednesday and Sunday evenings. They are made more interesting by a so-called "chocolate pot,” that is, chocolate is served to the young folk, and also a light supper. This courtship center is the very latest thing of its kind in Boston, if not in the world. It is just what it

announces itself to be. More than one hundred young men, including a large number of Tech and Harvard boys and more than one hundred girls, numbering among them many from the Emerson College of Oratory and the New England Conservatory of Music, are already attending the courting meetings. Mrs. Jenness’ motto is, “Give the young people a chance." “I believe in bringing them together and then in letting propinquity do the rest," she says. Cupid in the church is well placed. Where could there be a more fitting place for young persons to carry on their love affairs ? "We have introduced a great many young men and young women, and each of the five hundred active workers of the church has been invited to come to the ‘-chocolate pot’ gatherings and bring a friend.” The courtship gathering idea, according to the minister’s wife, is only one of a number being planned by the original pastor and his wife for making the Methodist church center a center of community interests for the ten thousand persons within the Tremont Street church district.